Wednesday, 21 January 2015

Right Kind of Wrong (Finding Fate #3) by Chelsea Fine ~ #bookreview

Jenna
Lacombe needs complete control, whether it’s in the streets . . . or
between the sheets. So when she sets out on a solo road trip to visit
her family in New Orleans, she’s beyond annoyed that the infuriatingly
sexy Jack Oliver wants to hitch a ride with her. Ever since they shared a
wild night together last year, he’s been trying to strip away her
defenses one by one. He claims he’s just coming along to keep her
safe-but what’s not safe for her is prolonged exposure to the tattooed
hottie.

Jack can’t get Jenna out from under his skin. She makes
him feel alive again after his old life nearly destroyed him-and losing
her is not an option. Now Jack’s troubles are catching up to him, and
he’s forced to return to his hometown in Louisiana. But when his secrets
put them both in harm’s way, Jenna will have to figure out how far
she’s willing to let love in . . . and how much she already has.

Ok, I do like this
series and I did like this book but there were parts I also didn't. This
series so far has been about three different couples but each book has been in a parallel time frame as the others, which makes them all over
lap in ways and I felt it was a refreshing way to set up the series.

Here
we finally get to find out what all the drama is with Jenna and Jack.
Jenna is fiercely independent but is torn with her feelings for her best
friend Jack especially after they slept together a year ago. At first I
was digging Jenna's fierceness and Jack's committment to loving her
even though she wouldn't let him in.

Jenna
has a plan for her future and Jack doesn't fit into it. Because love
will run her future. Here is the burning question why can't she have a
fabulous career and love? Why is it one or the other Why???? This
ongoing plan made me go from love to hate for Jenna. I get it, I do
especially with her family history of men bailing but come one!! She was
one to tell everyone else to take a chance of love but when it comes to
her. Nope, stubborn as an ox with her head firmly planted up her ass.

So,
after finding out her Grandma is "dying again" she makes her way back
home to New Orleans with her unwanted travel companion. Jack's having
issues back home and finds out Jenna also has to head back home, so he
hijacks her road trip. This way he gets to go back home while watching
over Jenna and at the same time trying to figure out why Jenna keeps him
away.

Through this road trip Jenna has a battle with
herself and her need for control and her future. Things were going
according to her plan until Jack walked into her life. After many, many
times from many different people, Jenna has been told that it is ok to love.

"You're not scared of losing me, Jenna. You're scared of having me."

"I know where it goes," I snap. "It goes from love to marriage to babies to divorce to loneliness to poverty to death."

"You
won't be settled until you understand something, my little star." She
watches me closely. "Love is the absence of control and the presence of
faith. And you won't truly be happy until you surrender to it."

"Jenna,"
I quietly say, "love isn't a weakness. It's the strongest part of the
heart. It's the part that tells you that being with someone else makes
you better."

"Choosing to love a man, and letting that man love
you back, is the most independent thing a girl can do for herself. No
independent person is truly successful on their own."

Argh! How
many ways does she need to hear it until she finally gets her head out
of her ass. Spoiler Alert !!!! let me tell you, it is NOT until past
90% that she finally gets her head out of her ass.

This
road trip was so much more for this duo, as they got to finally see
behind the masks that they both have, which helped Jack break through to
Jenna. Jack's life isn't pretty and he has always been scared if she
found out the truth she would run, but Jenna surprises him with her
acceptance of his family and past but still is stubborn when it comes to
her heart. With Jack comes a past involving shady characters and drug
dealers. And this story line with the drug dealers I felt was way to
clean cut. I'm not in the drug world but I have a sneaky supsicion that
it would NOT go that smoothly as it did for Jack to get his family out
of trouble. I know, I know it's fiction but the closer to reality to
more the escape it is to read.

Even though Jenna grated
on my nerves, Jack was awesome and loving which helped me carry on with
the book. I do like this series and I did like the book I just didn't
love it.

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